Here’s the best read of the day: Matt Thorn drops in at Sporadic Sequential to explain what Japanese manga readers “know” without realizing it. John Jakala then elaborates a bit, with examples, and Matt comments on that as well.
Whatever happened to ADV Manga? In this week’s PWCW, Kai-Ming Cha interviews Chris Oarr and learns that the company is scheduling two volumes a month for now, although they may ramp it up to three or four in the future. It’s also pretty clear that anime is driving the bus at ADV, as most of their manga from now on will be associated with their anime.
David Welsh has plenty of choices from this week’s new manga list, and the MangaCast crew discusses their picks as well.
Ed Chavez starts his Big List of new Japanese manga with special lists of boys love and ero titles.
Erin F. reports on Anime Weekend Atlanta at Manga Recon.
Comicsnob analyzes last week’s online sales.
Publisher IDW enters the manga scene with Kazuo Umezu’s Reptilia as its first title.
Nominations are open for the Cybils, the online YA lit awards. (Via Tangognat, who will be judging the graphic novel category again this year.)
Case Closed creator Gosho Aoyama has the ending of his long-running (59 volumes and counting) manga ready to go, but he won’t be pulling it out of the drawer for a while.
If this blogger is typical, marketers may be missing an awfully big boat by not marketing manga by genre.
Canned Dogs has some scans from Akiba Romance, a Japanese manga about fujoshi.
Reviews: At Comics Worth Reading, Rob Vollmar recommends Phoenix Vol. 3: Yamato. Cliched characters don’t keep Nick from enjoying vol. 1 of The Gentleman’s Alliance+ at Hobotaku. At Manga Life, Steven Mortiboy reviews The Clarence Principle and Matthew J. Brady checks out Manga Messiah. Matt has more comments at his own blog. Julie finds vol. 1 of Hikkatsu amusing at the Manga Maniac Cafe. Ferdinand reviews vol. 1 of Venus in Love at Prospero’s Manga, and as Billy Aguiar, he reviews vol. 2 of Star Trek: The Manga for CBG. Kethylia wonders why she’s even reading vol. 3 of Kashimashi ~Girl Meets Girl~, although she finds it marginally better than vol. 2. At Slightly Biased Manga, Connie posts reviews of vol. 7 of Nana, vol. 1 of 3×3 Eyes, and vol. 5 of + Anima.
